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Forums - Sales - Mario Kart 8 Boosts Wii U Sales 400% in Americas

Seece on 11 June 2014
NintendoPie said:
Seece said:

It's been ok, this suggests the boost was around 48k in the US (60k overall launch week) rather than the 78k we posted.

So we're looking at

US - 60k
UK - 12k
Japan - 19k
France - 20k
Total - 111k

Rest of the world - 46k according to VGC

Just "ok", Seece? A console that no one wanted before, for good reason, gets a huge boost from one game that also sold a large amount in one week. I would say that it's done very good. Weeks following not-with-standing. 

It's not a huge boost. For comparison, when the Xbox 360 slim launched (with no price cut) sales went above 100k in the UK alone, that's double what MK has achieved in the US, a country that sells on average 5 times more.

MGS4 on PS3 (a system that at the time was not doing well, propelled sales in the US to 406,000

150k~ is what 360, PS3 did on average all last gen.

In the grand scheme of things it's good % wise, good 'news' for Nintendo, but the actual bump is not huge by any margin.



 

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Ninsect on 11 June 2014
Train wreck said:
NintendoPie said:
Seece said:

It's been ok, this suggests the boost was around 48k in the US (60k overall launch week) rather than the 78k we posted.

So we're looking at

US - 60k
UK - 12k
Japan - 19k
France - 20k
Total - 111k

Rest of the world - 46k according to VGC

Just "ok", Seece? A console that no one wanted before, for good reason, gets a huge boost from one game that also sold a large amount in one week. I would say that it's done very good. Weeks following not-with-standing. 

Just "one game", NintendoPie?

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drake_tolu on 11 June 2014

I predict 120K for NPD of June, and 200K on July!



Clyde32 on 11 June 2014

Lol that's cute. You do realize that if it was undertracked before, then the percentage would be correct right?



OfficerRaichu15 on 11 June 2014

well clyde i gotta disagree we really dont know since the 6.17 million offcial sold came 2 weeks before mk8 week



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Seece on 11 June 2014
Clyde32 said:
Lol that's cute. You do realize that if it was undertracked before, then the percentage would be correct right?

How do you know it isn't overtracked? Oh yeah you don't. As far as I can see nobody is saying it's either for definite, just working with what we know (the averages of last month).



 

OfficerRaichu15 on 11 June 2014

ok lets just all not give guesses and wait until that may npd happens
then we can figure out our answer



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fleischr on 11 June 2014
Seece said:
fleischr said:
If I recall correctly (and correct me politely if I'm wrong), NPD had higher numbers for the WiiU for the last few months than what VGC had.

Given that Nintendo's confirmation 1.2 million games were sold and assuming the 18% attach rate is consistent worldwide(not just NA), that actually puts WiiU total hardware in the neighborhood of 6.6-6.7 million LTD -- possible confirmation that WiiU is undertracked?

No. We know sales before MK were at around 6.1m, hardware hasn't risen 500k to 600k in the last week.


The global attach rate would have to  be 19%+. That would mean an attach rate well above 20% for both Europe and Japan. Do you think that's actually the case?



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Train wreck on 11 June 2014
NintendoPie said:
Train wreck said:

Just "one game", NintendoPie?

Um, yes. One game, Train wreck. Mario Kart 8, to my knowledge, is the only game that came out for Wii U in that week.

But Nintendo, is like, going out of its way to tell us that this "one game" has had a similar effects in boosting hardware and junk. I mean like OMG!  Wouldn't you say that there is something special about this "one game"?



NintendoPie on 11 June 2014
Seece said:

It's not a huge boost. For comparison, when the Xbox 360 slim launched (with no price cut) sales went above 100k in the UK alone, that's double what MK has achieved in the US, a country that sells on average 5 times more.

MGS4 on PS3 (a system that at the time was not doing well, propelled sales in the US to 406,000

150k~ is what 360, PS3 did on average all last gen.

In the grand scheme of things it's good % wise, good 'news' for Nintendo, but the actual bump is not huge by any margin.

The Wii U was doing ~30k in the weeks pre-MK8, it went up to nearly 190k. To act like the Wii U is even close to the situations of the XB360 and the PS3 were in is ridiculous. You've seen the numbers and you know the Wii U has been doing considerably worse than the PS3 or 360. Going up nearly 160k WW is an achievement for a console that is doing so terribly in all sense of the word.